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Thunderbird loses email accounts

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trpohrte
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Several times in the past several months Thunderbird comes up with the create new account prompts. My existing email accounts are gone. When I recreate my email accounts, a new set of folders is created in the AppData\Thunderbird\Profiles\Mail folder (i.e.: Local Folders-1, pop.centurylink.net-1, then Local Folders-2, pop.centurylink.net-2, etc.). I can copy the files from the older folders to the newly created folders and recover my emails.

Which file contains the mail folder names? Can I edit it to use the older email folder names? Why is it seemingly being corrupted?

Thanks.

Several times in the past several months Thunderbird comes up with the create new account prompts. My existing email accounts are gone. When I recreate my email accounts, a new set of folders is created in the AppData\Thunderbird\Profiles\Mail folder (i.e.: Local Folders-1, pop.centurylink.net-1, then Local Folders-2, pop.centurylink.net-2, etc.). I can copy the files from the older folders to the newly created folders and recover my emails. Which file contains the mail folder names? Can I edit it to use the older email folder names? Why is it seemingly being corrupted? Thanks.